Scalp protector device



Aug. 9, 1955 G. DE LEYER SCALP PROTECTOR DEVICE Filed Aug. 31, 1953 INVENTOR 62:9 deligyer ATTORNEYS United States Pate SCALP PROTECTOR DEVICE Guy de Leyer, Miami, Fla. Application August 31, 1953, Serial No. 377,410 4 Claims. .(Cl. 132--9) Generically this invention relates to the formation of hair waves on a persons head, but it more particularly is directed to means for effecting the formationof permanent waves in an eflicient manner without injury to a persons scalp.

Some of the prevalent types of scalp protectors with which I am familiar are constructed of felt or the like, and as an example, consisting of a strip provided with an elongated hair receiving slot and formed of a relatively soft bulky material and which when washed following the waving operation, owing to its structural texture, requires considerable time to dry before its use can be repeated, and such typeof pad is not only diflicult to maintain in a non-scalp contaminating condition, but requires extra time of the operator to operate and maintain in sanitary condition;rtherefore, one of the principal objects of this invention is the provision of a scalp protector formed from a pliable plastic or like material having a smooth surface adapted to be washed in a disinfectant and dried in the matter of seconds for immediate repeated use without possibility of scalp contamination and/or infec tion and at the same time effecting a saving in the operators time with a consequent shortening of the waving operation.

A further important object of this invention is the provision of a scalp protector pad or strip of pliable heat and fluid resisting plastic or like material adapted to keep its shape under repeated use.

A still further object of this invention is the provision of a slotted hair receiving pad or unit element of a pliable heat and fluid resisting smooth surface material, formed to interlock with an adjacent element in a manner such as to form a heat and steam repellent scalp protecting pad structure.

Another important object of this invention is the provision of an elongated thin pliable heat resistant padlike element having a hair tuft receiving slot and shaped to form a scalp protective seat corresponding to that of a permanent wave clip.

Another important object of this invention is the provision of a scalp protecting structure consisting of a plurality of heat, steam and water repellent pads, each adapted to receive a tuft of hair, the forward portion of each pad being so formed as to slidingly receive the complementally formed rear edge portion of the succeeding pad to provide an interlocking pad structure adapted to protect the scalp against steam, and to provide means for effecting closer set waves.

With these and other objects in view, which will become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures, of which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one of my improved scalp protectors or units.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a plurality of protector 2,714,891 Patented Aug. 9, 1955 units arranged in interlocking engagement and forming a steam resistant scalp protecting structure in operative hair tuft receiving position.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of one of the pads shaped to complete underlie a wave clip device shown in dotted lines seated thereon.

Heretofore felt pads and the like interposed between scalp and the wave producing mediums, where used repeatedly, have proven unsanitary and attempts to effect their sterilization have proven not only laborious but expensive and time consuming, by reason of requiring time to dry or necessitating a drying operation, and in any event, are not available for immediate repeated use. Therefore, it was to overcome such disadvantages and to produce a strip or pad of a thin, pliable, smooth surface, fluid and heat resistant material, admitting of being easily washed in the matter of seconds, rinsed in a disinfectant and likewise dried in seconds, ready for immediate repeated use, and providing against scalp contamination frequently resulting in infections, and by reason of their construction, adapted to retain their shape under repeated usage, and adapted to receive respective tufts of hair and each to telescopically interfit with a succeeding pad to permit closer wave spacing and to provide a flexible interlocking arrangement adapted to pre vent even steam from reaching the scalp, that I designed the pad and its interlocking features forming the subject matter of this invention.

In the illustrated embodiment characterizing this invention there is shown a pad or strip 5 constructed of pliable plastic or like fluid and heat resistant material. Said pad, in the present instance, being of a substantially rectangular shape andformed at one end with an angularly widened corner portion 6 for a purpose directly more fully appearing.

The pad or strip 5 is formed with a centrally disposed longitudinal slot or slit 7 adapted to receive a portion of hair 7 which is gathered into a tuft or lock and positioned into a permanent wave during the waving operation. In order to provide for the interfitting and telescoping engagement of one pad with another similar pad, the forward edge 8 of the pad 5 is formed with a longi tudinal recess 9 extending through the ends 10 and 11 and rearwardly to the bottom of said recess 9 as shown in end 10 and as indicated by the dotted line 12 (Fig. 1) slightly spaced from the slit or slot 7. Said pad or strip 5 tapers in thickness rearwardly from its forward edge 8 to its rear thin edge 13 and forming from the dotted line 12 to the edge 13 a thin tapered rear portion. The surface portion 14 forms the upper wall of the recess 9 and the resiliency of the plastic material provides a spring-like hinge action along the dotted line 12 for said surface portion 14, and by reason of the formation of the rear portion of the pad 5 and the smooth surfaces thereof in conjunction with the resiliently hinged member 14, said rear portion of each pad 5 is easily and telescopically slidable into the recess 9 of a preceding anchored pad, said pads being progressively and telescopically arranged to form the interfitting unitary and steam resistant pad structure (Fig. 2).

In operation the operator takes a pad 5 and projects through the slit 7 the requisite quantity of hair to form the desired wave, and repeats this procedure with another pad 5 and then telescopically inserts the rear tapered portion terminating in the edge 13 thereof into the recess 9 of said first mentioned or preceding pad 5 and thus, progressively as desired, forming an anchored interfitting unitary structure (Fig. 2) adapted to protect the scalp from the uncomfortable if not deleterious effects of the waving fluid and steam incident to waving operations.

Further, a clip or clamp device X, when desired, may be placed over each respective wave tuft or lock of hair in seating relation with the pad 5 and manipulated to clamping engagement with said tuft, said pad by reason of its predetermined shape, prevents contact of any part of the clamp device with the scalp. Said clip forms no part of the present invention.

From the above it will be apparent that I have designed a thin scalp protecting pad, constructed from a pliable material impervious to hair waving substances, heat and steam; subject to thorough sterilization and ready for repeated use in a matter of minutes; adapted to retain its designed shape under repeated usage; so constructed as to be readily and telescopically engageable one with another in progressive sequence to provide a liquid heat and steam scalp protective interfitted structure, said structure efiecting close wave setting, and said pads being simple in construction, manufacturable at negligible cost, and eflicient for the purposes intended.

Although in practice I have found that the form of my invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings and referred to in the above description as the preferred embodiment is the most eificient and practical, yet realizing that conditions concurrent with the adoption of my invention will necessarily vary, I desire to emphasize that 1 various minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from or sacrificing any of the principles of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire protected by Letters Patent is as set forth in the following claims:

1. A scalp protector device of the character described comprising a strip of pliable heat and fluid resisting material formed with a hair receiving slot, said strip having in one transverse edge a recess extending through the adjacent longitudinal edges, said strip being tapered to the other transverse edge, and adapted to enter the recess in the edge of another strip to form a continuous heat and steam resistant protector for the scalp.

2. A scalp protector device of the character described comprising a thin strip of resilient heat and fluid resistant material having a hair receiving slot, said strip being formed in one transverse edge with a rearwardly extending recess having upper and lower wall portions, said upper wall portion having a spring-like action along the bottom of said recess, the other transverse edge being tapered to interfit in the recess of another strip to form a continuous heat and fluid resistant scalp shield.

3. A scalp protector device of the character described comprising a plurality of strips of flexible material, each strip having a hair receiving slot, said strip being formed along one edge with a recess, the opposite edge being tapered, the tapered edge portion of each strip adapted for progressive interfitting engagement in the recess of each preceding strip to form a heat and fluid resistant scalp protector shield.

4. A scalp protector device of the character described comprising a plurality of strips of pliable heat and fluid repellant material, each strip having a hair receiving slot and being formed in one edge with a recess, and its 0pposite edge being tapered, the tapered portion of each strip adapted for progressive interfitting engagement in the recess of each preceding strip to form a heat and fluid repcllant scalp protector structure, each strip at one end being wider than at the other end to provide a scalp protective seat for a hair clamp device.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,003,811 Smith June 4, 1935 FOREIGN PATENTS 858,010 Germany Dec. 4, 1952 many. i 

